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talbotstevens.com DNS Cutover — IIS → Cloudflare Pages

Section titled “talbotstevens.com DNS Cutover — IIS → Cloudflare Pages”

Background

Section titled “Background”

Spun off from monorepo-tscom-rebuild (approved 2026-07-09). The rebuilt Astro site deploys to Cloudflare Pages via web-deploy ts-site online (verified working locally 2026-07-09), but live talbotstevens.com still points at the legacy Canadian Web Hosting IIS server.

A cutover plan already exists and must be followed/updated: Core/_WorkingOn/Projects/ts-site/phases/Phase-1-Core-Rebuild/Task-7-Deployment-Plan.md (CF Pages first deploy → custom domain → NS transfer, MX preservation, zero-downtime sequence).

Risk is critical — every step here is CEO-gated (production DNS + live site); Claude prepares and verifies, Talbot executes/approves each stage.

⚠️ Critical constraints (why this is not just “flip DNS”)

Section titled “⚠️ Critical constraints (why this is not just “flip DNS”)”
  1. The old IIS host also serves the focus pages: talbotstevens.com/mbr/focus.html and talbotstevens.com/sdc/focus.html (FTP-deployed via web-deploy mbr-focus/sdc-focus). A naive cutover 404s them. Plan must either (a) serve /mbr/ + /sdc/ paths from the new CF Pages site (redirects or copied content + updated focus-deploy targets), or (b) move focus pages to their own hosts first.
  2. MX / email records on the current DNS must be inventoried and preserved before NS transfer.
  3. https://talbotstevens.com/mbr/focus.html is referenced as a content SSOT in the monorepo (mission wording) and linked from concept pages — verify links survive.

Tasks

Section titled “Tasks”
  • Refresh Task-7-Deployment-Plan against current reality (Astro 7, web-deploy config, focus-page inventory)
  • Inventory ALL current DNS records + everything the IIS host serves (whois, dig, crawl) — NEVER GUESS what else lives there
  • Solve the focus-pages constraint (redirects in CF Pages _redirects, or content moves) and update web-deploy focus-deploy targets accordingly
  • First CF Pages deploy (web-deploy ts-site online) → review on pages.dev — Talbot approval gate
  • Staged cutover per plan; post-cutover checklist (SSL, www, MX, focus pages, search, calculator iframe)

Done when

Section titled “Done when”
  • talbotstevens.com serves the new site from Cloudflare Pages
  • Focus pages + email verified working post-cutover
  • Old-host retirement decision documented